26 Apr
2002
26 Apr
'02
6:06 a.m.
When you
opened the box with your COCO, what useful work would it do with the
$399 you had just spent? Could you write a letter? Could you write and
compile a Fortran program?
A REAL programmer can write a FORTRAN program in ANY language.
There was a fairly good (even though Microsoft) BASIC interpreter in ROM.
A REAL programmer could write a FORTRAN program with it.